UN
Day
International
Day of the Girl Child
Events
of the day
1138 – A massive earthquake
strikes Aleppo, Syria.
1531 – Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle
with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.
1582 – Because of the implementation of
the Gregorian calendar, this day does not
exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal
and Spain.
1614 – Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants
petition the States General for exclusive
trading rights in the New Netherland colony.
1634 – The Burchardi flood – "the second
Grote Mandrenke" killed around 15,000
men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
1649 – Sack of Wexford: After a ten-day
siege, English New Model Army troops (under
Oliver Cromwell) stormed the town of Wexford,
killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops
and 1,500 civilians.
1727 – George II and Caroline of Ansbach
are crowned King and Queen of Great Britain.
1767 – Surveying for the Mason–Dixon Line
separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is
completed.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle
of Valcour Island – On Lake Champlain a
fleet of American boats is defeated by the
Royal Navy, but delays the British advance
until 1777.
1797 – Battle of Camperdown: Naval battle
between Royal Navy and Royal Netherlands
Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars.
The outcome of the battle was a decisive
British victory.
1809 – Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee,
explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious
circumstances at an inn called Grinder's
Stand.
1811 – Inventor John Stevens' boat, the
Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered
ferry (service between New York City, New
York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
1833 – A big demonstration at the gates
of the legislature of Buenos Aires forces
the ousting of governor Juan Ramón Balcarce
and his replacement with Juan José Viamonte.
1852 – The University of Sydney, Australia's
oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
1862 – American Civil War: In the aftermath
of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General
J.E.B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg,
Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north.
1864 – Campina Grande, Brazil is established
as a city.
1865 – Paul Bogle led hundreds of black
men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting
the Morant Bay rebellion.
1890 – In Washington, DC, the Daughters
of the American Revolution is founded.
1899 – Second Boer War begins: In South
Africa, a war between the United Kingdom
and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange
Free State erupts.
1899 – The Western League is renamed the
American League.
1906 – San Francisco public school board
sparks United States diplomatic crisis with
Japan by ordering Japanese students to be
taught in racially segregated schools.
1910 – Former President Theodore Roosevelt
becomes the first U.S. president to fly
in an airplane. He flew for four minutes
with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the
Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St.
Louis International Airport), St. Louis,
Missouri.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Greek Army
liberates the city of Kozani.
1918 – San Fermín earthquake hits western
Puerto Rico.
1929 – JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford,
Delaware, making it a nationwide company
with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1941 – Beginning of the National Liberation
War of Macedonia.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance
– On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal,
United States Navy ships intercept and defeat
a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce
troops on the island.
1944 – Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly
Tannu Tuva is annexed by the U.S.S.R
1950 – Television: CBS's mechanical color
system is the first to be licensed for broadcast
by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
1954 – First Indochina War: The Viet Minh
take control of North Vietnam.
1957 – Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate
Sputnik I's booster rocket's orbit.
1958 – Pioneer program: NASA launches the
lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back
to Earth and burns up).
1962 – Second Vatican Council: Pope John
XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council
of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo
7, the first successful manned Apollo mission,
with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele
and Walter Cunningham aboard.
1972 – A race riot occurs on the United
States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk
off the coast of Vietnam during Operation
Linebacker.
1975 – The NBC sketch comedy/variety show
Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin
as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian
and Billy Preston as guests.
1976 – George Washington's appointment,
posthumously, to the grade of General of
the Armies of the United States by congressional
joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved
by President Gerald R. Ford.
1982 – The Mary Rose, a Tudor carrack which
sank on July 19, 1545, is salvaged from
the sea bed of the Solent, off Portsmouth.
1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger,
astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the
first American woman to perform a space
walk.
1986 – Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan
and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet
in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue
discussions about scaling back their intermediate
missile arsenals in Europe.
1987 – Start of Operation Pawan by Indian
Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed
few thousand ethnic Tamil civilians, several
hundred Tamil Tigers and few hundred Indian
Army soldiers.
1996 – Pala accident: a wood lorry and school
bus collide in Jõgeva county, Estonia, killing
eight children.
2000 – NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space
Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.
2001 – The Polaroid Corporation files for
federal bankruptcy protection.
2002 – A bomb attack in a shopping mall
in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Alexander Sauli
Andronicus, Probus, and Tarachus (Roman
Catholic Church)
Æthelburh of Barking
Cainnech of Aghaboe
Gummarus
Lommán of Trim
Nectarius of Constantinople
Pope John XXIII (Roman Catholic Church)
October 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
General Pulaski Memorial Day (United States)
Meditrinalia, in honor of Meditrina. (Roman
Empire)
National Coming Out Day (Multinational,
including United Kingdom, Switzerland, and
United States among others.)
Old Michelmas Day (Celtic)
Revolution Day (Republic of Macedonia)
Mato Grosso do Sul Day (the state was created
by dividing the Brazilian state of Mato
Grosso)
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